> > >   (load in demand) or even automatically generating methods with
> > >   logic based on the method name:
> > >     $dbh->Delete_from_table($table, $key)

> > AUTOLOAD is invasive.  No one writing a module for general distribution
> > should use AUTOLOAD.  There is no good way to resolve two uncoordinated

> Umm, that's not really true, at least not in the way you've stated it.

I am suitable rebuked.  Thank you.

I should have said: "Automatically generating methods" with 
AUTOLOAD is invasive in perl objects.  You can't resolve two 
such AUTOLOADing modules in a ISA array tree.  Even if you aren't 
inviting subclassing, someone might mess with UNIVERSAL.

rob                     Live the dream.

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